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RCMP looking into Lake Country grass fire
LAKE COUNTRY – A grass fire in Lake Country this afternoon was likely human caused. A report of smoke and flame at Sherman Drive and Copper Hill Road behind Peter Greer Elementary was called in about 12:48 p.m., May 16. Lake Country firefighters, with help from B.C. Wildfire, put out the fire which produced heavy...
Lake Country family bringing anime to the Okanagan
"THERE'S ALWAYS THAT 'YOU'RE A NERD THING', BUT THAT'S CHANGING." KELOWNA – A family from Lake Country has opened a store in Orchard Park Mall which has no competition anywhere in the Okanagan. The product they sell may be unfamiliar to most people, but it’s a marketgaining in popularity around the world. Anime, the broad...
PHOTOS: Parade kicks off annual May Day celebration in Rutland
KELOWNA - Centennial Park is filled with rides, food trucks, booths and more for the annual Rutland May Days Festival. The May Days Parade kicked off the festivities Saturday morning, May 16, with over 50 entries. Festival chair Laurel D’Andrea says there is a new midway this year at Roxby Square off Roxby Road, while...
Old dynamite forces evacuation at West Kelowna trailer park
WEST KELOWNA – The bomb squad from Vancouver travelled to West Kelowna last night to blow up some old sticks of dynamite. RCMP say the explosives were in a backpack found by a resident of the Pine Ridge Mobile Home Park at 1860 Boucherie Rd. while he was on a hike. The man brought the...